I really wasn't sure what to expect when I looked at Hunch as the home screen asked me where I lived. It then asked me a bunch of other questions about what I liked, was interested in, age, sex and so on. I dutifully answered the questions (didn't take long, no more than a couple of minutes) and then Hunch told me that it knew enough about me to start being helpful.
You can look at one of the preset questions, or search for other questions to help you out in decisions you have to make. Let's take one (almost) at random, and I'll walk you through it.
'Where should I live in London?' By a pub/nightlife? North or South? Tube zone? Happening or Quiet? Tube line? Quick answers to these then gave me Wimbledon, Battersea or Dulwich, with a 'wild card' of Richmond. Interestingly I've lived fairly close to ALL of those locations, so you can't get much more accurate than that.
I answered questions on British comedies (again, spot on) and SF films (pretty much a failure), and then explored the service, and said that I wanted to make a decision on the search engine I wanted to use. Wild card answer came up with Exalead which was pretty good. Also tried 'which URL shortening service should I use' and it got that right as well.
If you have a decision to make it's worth trying this out - and it's quite fun as well.
You can look at one of the preset questions, or search for other questions to help you out in decisions you have to make. Let's take one (almost) at random, and I'll walk you through it.
'Where should I live in London?' By a pub/nightlife? North or South? Tube zone? Happening or Quiet? Tube line? Quick answers to these then gave me Wimbledon, Battersea or Dulwich, with a 'wild card' of Richmond. Interestingly I've lived fairly close to ALL of those locations, so you can't get much more accurate than that.
I answered questions on British comedies (again, spot on) and SF films (pretty much a failure), and then explored the service, and said that I wanted to make a decision on the search engine I wanted to use. Wild card answer came up with Exalead which was pretty good. Also tried 'which URL shortening service should I use' and it got that right as well.
If you have a decision to make it's worth trying this out - and it's quite fun as well.
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